Clarice Taylor
Also Known As: Clarise Taylor
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 20, 1917
Deathday: May 30, 2011
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Sommersby
Overview: Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he suddenly returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel herself is unsure, but willing to take the man into her home, and perhaps later into her heart.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-05
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Play Misty for Me
Overview: A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-01
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Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Overview: Junie Moon is in the hospital after her face has been disfigured by her deranged boyfriend. There she meets two other patients — Arthur, an epileptic, and Warren, who is gay and uses a wheelchair. The unlikely trio of outcasts decides to move in together and manages to enjoy a series of adventures as they endure various forms of prejudice and struggle with their own issues.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-11
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Smoke
Overview: Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-09
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Nothing Lasts Forever
Overview: An artist fails a test and is required to direct traffic in New York City's Holland Tunnel. He winds up falling in love with a beautiful woman, who takes him to the moon on a Lunar Cruiser.
Genres: Romance Science Fiction Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-06
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Five on the Black Hand Side
Overview: Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-25
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Willie Dynamite
Overview: Willie Dynamite is a pimp who operates in New York City. Willie was a big success as a pimp, but now, just as fast as he rose to the top, he has hit bottom. A former prostitute who has become a social worker tries to get Willie to clean up his life while it is still possible.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-23
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Change of Mind
Overview: A white man's brain is transplanted into a black man's skull.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-08
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Wedding Band
Overview: A drama which examines the enduring nature of love between a white man and a black woman in 1918 South Carolina.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-24
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Purlie
Overview: Purlie is a musical based on Ossie Davis' 1961 play Purlie Victorious. In the early days of the civil rights movement, a Southern plantation owner holds his sharecroppers in virtual slavery. Purlie comes home as a preacher who will shake things up and bring freedom to his people. This 1981 television adaptation won a CableACE Award.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-12
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Such Good Friends
Overview: Julie Messinger, a repressed woman, grapples with her hidden passions when a routine hospital visit for her husband, Richard, spirals into chaos. As secrets unravel, her quest for authenticity clashes with societal expectations.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-16
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The New Girl
Overview: In pursuance of a lucrative government contract, a private company hires its first Black female employee to comply with government regulations concerning equal economic opportunity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six
Overview: In 1963 a group of young Black boys living in Harlem were involved in an incident that earned them the nickname "The Harlem Six." Intent on protecting and clearing the names of their sons, several mothers bonded together to make their story known. This work emerges as a powerful close up of police brutality, and of power dynamics of 1960's Harlem.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Cosby Show: A Look Back
Overview: A retrospective of the phenomenally popular 1984-1992 situation comedy, "The Cosby Show," complete with memorable clips, bloopers and comments from series stars, producers and Bill Cosby himself.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-19
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